Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> added the comment:

> I believe that the behavior is so deeply ingrained in how argparse
> works that it can't be changed.

I think so as well.  Handling arguments with a dash prefiew could be viewed as 
fundamental design flaw except for the fact that the module has been so 
successful (both before and after landing in the standard library).

I've come to believe that argparse is very difficult to change without risk of 
breaking many existing tools that depend on argparse working exactly the way it 
does now.

Also, this issue is over a decade old and no clear solution has emerged.


> at this point installing modules from PyPI is sufficiently easy
> that I'm not sure it makes sense to advocate for another command
> line parser in the stdlib.

I agree. It would be a hard sell at this point.

Let's close this one.  I don't think it is going to get solved.

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resolution:  -> wont fix
stage: patch review -> resolved
status: open -> closed

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